Strategic Account Managers Oncology/Hematology - DEN, SWE & FIN

Are you a specialist in the area of Hematology/Oncology and looking for a new challenge? If you can envision providing scientific expertise in a role that can impact patients' lives - join us today!



As part of AstraZeneca the Nordic Marketing Company (Nordic) employs around 400 people across 5 countries and has offices located in Södertälje, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Oslo. By 2025 AstraZeneca Nordic aims to become a recognized leader in its core therapy areas and improve the lives of millions of people. This will be achieved by driving innovative science, preparing launches, building close collaboration and partnerships with stakeholders in health care systems, and developing high-performing teams.

AstraZeneca Oncology has a long tradition in personalized treatment, and we are currently establishing our new commercial Hematology team. With a growing pipeline ahead, we will seek a number of driven Strategic Account Managers in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Maybe you have experience of working as a Strategic Account Manager, Key Account Manager, Sales Representative or Disease Area Manager. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you're our kind of person.

Parisa Rahmani is the experienced manager who will lead this new team. From her, you can expect practical and pragmatic leadership, coupled with an empathic yet direct and focused communication style. Parisa will, with your help, build a team where collaboration is key and ideas always are encouraged.



About AstraZeneca in Hematology - Blood cancer

AstraZeneca has a deep-rooted heritage in oncology and offers a quickly-growing portfolio of new medicines that has the potential to transform patients' lives and the Company's future.

Hematology as one of four key oncology disease areas of focus with two US FDA-approved treatments and a robust global development program for a broad portfolio of potential blood cancer treatments.

About chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is one of the most common type of blood cancer in adults. In CLL, too many blood stem cells in the bone marrow become abnormal lymphocytes and these abnormal cells have difficulty fighting infections. The treatment landscape for CLL is rapidly evolving, with multiple agents expecting approval.



The role

As a Strategic Account Manager (SAM) in hematology, you will play an important role in the contribution to develop the Hematology brand/franchise strategy in the Nordics. You support with your understanding key stakeholder needs, perceptions, and insights.

In this field-based customer-facing role you drive sales and localization of marketing materials. You build partnerships with long-term mutual value with e.g. health care professionals, patient organizations, and local/regional budget holders.

Pro-activity is central to this role. It includes identify business opportunities, communicating needs and objectives aligned propositions, and recommending business-driven solutions. Your insights will channel into implementation of the national account plan, agreed upon with a cross-functional team and aligned with the Nordic brand plan.



In order to success, you have:

We are looking for you who holds an academic degree or equivalent, commercial or healthcare background. Experience in Hematology combined with established customer relationships are competitive advantages.

Patient-centricity is one of AstraZeneca´s core values. You need to be able to see issues through the lens of a patient, recognize the patient journey and relevant treatment options.

* Extensive proven experience in pharmaceutical sale from a specialist area, minimum 3-4 years.
* Skills in Value Based Selling is desirable
* Strong collaboration with the regional access manager (RAM) to ensure regional patient access - SAMs to identify account-based value for HCPs and patients by linking unmet need with clinical/outcomes data and RAMs to translate the added value to the regional payers to ensure access
* Leadership skills - ability to coordinate and engage cross-functional teams to drive activities for individual accounts
* Commercial innovation e.g. digital innovation- track-record of entrepreneurial approach in customer focused activities to achieve long-term business goals
* Proven project management skills



Your established ability to understand, assimilate, and communicate scientific information and Health Economic Outcome data will be as important for the role as will your good understanding of the ethical code and compliance requirements, culminating in a certification.

You express integrity in customer interactions with focus on needs and satisfaction. We, therefore, want you to have excellent communication and presentation skills, proficient in both written and spoken English as well as the local language.



Is this an opportunity for you, would you like to join our team? Apply already today!

For further information about the position, please contact Parisa Rahmani, Franchise Lead Hematology. Phone: +4672 961 32 45 Email: parisa.rahmani@astrazeneca.com.

Welcome with your application, in English, no later than the 10th September 2020.

Please state the preferred placement in your application.